Ban Chang Nak offers a wide range of artistic works and local handicrafts of Thai Lanna, which convey the creative imaginations through wood carvings in various shapes and patterns of elephants. It is worth to travel to appreciate the beauty that the artists have conveyed through the realistic wood patterns.

Feature

Baan Jang Nak exhibits the workpieces of the artists and Lanna artisans who deliver their creative imaginary through elephant wood craving in various motions and postures.

History

“Ban Chang Nak" (which means a house with a lot of elephants) is a place with a collection of works of Sala woodcraftsmen (Lanna skilled craftsmen) in Chiang Mai with outstanding elephant carving patterns. This place was established by a craftsman named Phet Wiriya who persuaded his friends with a great carving skill and passion on the art of Lanna wood carving to create a new elephant carving style with a focus on the realistic patterns and a variety of gestures. In 1988, Uncle Prayoon Chanyawong, a famous Thairath newspaper columnist at that time visited the place and named it “Ban Chang Nak”.

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